Posts Tagged ‘New Labour’

Yesterday it was announced that David Blunkett will be stepping down from the House of Commons. Good. Blunkett was an important modernising force within the Labour party, with a political trajectory m...
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There has been outrage at the decision of the police to issue a “prevention of harassment” notice to a journalist carrying out inquiries into the activities of a fraudster. Gareth Davies, a report...
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This morning’s Observer has gone to town on the news that Alastair Campbell has returned to Labour’s inner circle. Or at least, that’s the top line to a story built around the leak – possibly...
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The next election is going to be about the "cost of living crisis". Pass the sick bucket – it's a horrible phrase. Still, even Tory MPs admit that Ed Miliband is succeeding in framing the debate...
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How different politics was in the 1990s. Remember Bill Clinton in America, feelin’ folks' pain? Politicians – like young Tony Blair – were learning to triangulate, positioning themselves oh-so-r...
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This morning the Guardian has a bit of a first: it heaps praise on Alastair Campbell. According to blogger Alex Andreou, Cambell’s bravura performance on Newsnight, tearing into the Daily Mail’s R...
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I'm often wrong, about lots of things. So this morning I tested a pet theory: that nothing good can come from reading the memoirs of a spin doctor. Or politician (there are some exceptions in this cat...
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Prime ministers get the advisers that they deserve. The legendary, or infamous, spin doctors of recent politics are all, in some ways, a mirror image of their masters. Alastair Campbell, an old collea...
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A couple of weeks ago my good friend John McTernan penned a piece for this paper about the fallout from the Syria vote, headlined “David Cameron's No 10 isn’t a patch on Tony Blair’s”. He argu...
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It is impossible to overstate the damage done to the Foreign Office during 13 years of New Labour. The institution came under systematic and malicious attack. Tony Blair sidelined the organisation, se...
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